Dear Id Pro Quo writer

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Hello idproquo creator! I expect you're here because our ids are a match, so I know I'll love whatever you make for me. ♥

For this exchange you literally cannot go too hurt/comforty, too tropey, or too angsty for me. On the other hand, I also really love emotionally restrained, plotty fic, slow emotional growth, understated expressions of affection, and emotionally charged, ambiguous relationships. Go wherever your heart takes you; I'm happy to be along for the ride.

I requested fic for my main gift, but would be very happy with art treats.

In all cases, feel free to include canonical pairings and other characters in the ensemble besides the requested ones.


Iddy things I love:
Enemies/antagonists to friends. Characters reluctantly working together and discovering hidden depths in the other person. Cautious overtures of tenderness. Developing affection. Witnessing the other character having nightmares or other trauma after-effects and learning about it that way. Characters being gentle with each other's damage (physical or emotional). Characters being all up in each other's space, especially if they're not actually a couple but are just That Weird about each other. Characters who love each other but are too emotionally repressed to admit it. Platonic bedsharing or sharing of other spaces (tents, hotel rooms, etc). Cuddling and gentle touching. Protectiveness. Characters getting badly hurt for someone else (taking a bullet, taking torture to spare them, etc) and the other character feeling terribly guilty about it and the first one not minding at all. Tortured together, or recovering afterwards. Trauma recovery. Fever, delirium, head injuries, generally being dazed and floppy and out of it. Sex pollen with a focus on taking care of each other's emotional and physical needs, during and/or after. Desperate worry. Presumed dead. Actually dead and then magically healed/fixed/rescued from the afterlife. Handcuffed together. Trapped together. Hiding injuries/illness, not believing they're worth saving or being taken care of. Overworking themselves while recovering from injury or illness, and relapsing. Learning to be loved and to believe they're worthy of love. Families of choice.

Do not want:
Death or terminal illness of requested characters (presumed death and/or miraculous healing is fine) except as otherwise stated in requests. Unrequested non-canon couples. Pregnancy, except canonical ones. Detailed descriptions of rape from the victim's POV (but recovery fic is fine). Dark or downer endings - even if very dark things happen in a fic, I'd like to end on a note of hope.



Fandoms:


MCU
Carol Danvers/Yon-Rogg
Carol Danvers & Yon-Rogg
Talos & Yon-Rogg
Talos/Yon-Rogg
Bonding - characters grow closer despite themselves • Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape • Canon divergence due to bad guy switching loyalties • Captain Marvel - Carol's identity issues from spending six years thinking she was Kree • Captain Marvel - Carol's post-movie crusade against the Supreme Intelligence • Captivity - Fellow captives sharing bed/body heat for mutual comfort after hurt • Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore • Character loses everything and can only turn to enemy for help • Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded • Enemies to Lovers - Seeing enemy/antagonist hurting prompts unexpected feelings • Hurt/Comfort - Aftermath of Torture • Hurt/Comfort - Being comforted by someone character distrusts • Hurt/Comfort - Character Doesn't Expect Tenderness But Gets It Anyway • Hurt/Comfort - Field dressing combat injuries while being hunted by adversaries • Injured bad guy showing up on good guy's doorstep saying "I didn't know where else to go" • Protecting your enemy from their enemies • Slavery - Abused slave bought on the auction block & shocked to be treated kindly • Slow and painful process of recovering from lifetime of cultural brainwashing • They thought no one was coming; got rescued by unexpected person • Undercover - Reformed former bad guy has to go undercover as a bad guy

Enemies to allies, reluctant friends and/or lovers is my jam. In Carol and Yon-Rogg's case, there's an actual history of warm feelings and maybe even love, massively complicated by the fact that he was manipulating her the whole time; with Yon-Rogg and Talos, there's no actual personal enmity, just a whole lot of enmity due to their people being at war and oh by the way that thing where Yon-Rogg is complicit in the attempted genocide of Talos's people.

I think most of my requests are pretty straightforward from the tags. I'm equally good with platonic, romantic, or fuckbuddies (or any complicated middle ground you want to explore). For the Talos/Yon-Rogg variant, you can handle Soren however you like. I would have requested Soren/Talos/Yon-Rogg as well if it had been in the tagset, so I'd be fine with that version, or if open relationships are normal for Skrulls, or if she's just not mentioned. (On the other hand, Yon-Rogg interacting with her and/or their kid is very welcome if you're interested in writing that.)

Other tags I ran out of room to include; please feel free to use for inspiration:
A has every reason to retaliate against B; helps B instead
bonding in captivity
Character's superpowers are killing them
Captivity: Chained up with arms above head
Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance
Enemies Must Work Together/Trust Each Other To Solve Problem And/Or Prevent (Fate Worse Than?) Death
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares
Hurt/Comfort - Circumstances force enemies to patch each other up
Hurt/Comfort - Concussion or Head Injury
Mirror Universe
Redeemed villain's conscience gets in the way of relationship with hero love interest
Redemption Road Trip
Unexpected rescue followed by tenderly patching up wounds for them
unexpected telepathy leads to revelations





Defenders TV
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand
Ward Meachum & Colleen Wing
Addiction recovery • Alternate Universe - Hearts can be nonfatally ripped out and given to others to keep safe/hide/injure/etc • Captivity: Chained up with arms above head • Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance • Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another • Character's superpowers are killing them • Characters are forced to fight side by side in a gladiatorial arena • Haunted by Ghost of Dead Abuser • Hurt/Comfort - Character hides their illness until they faint and everyone panics • Hurt/Comfort - Character jumped in front of a bullet to save someone • Hurt/Comfort - Character overuses magic/powers/etc. to protect a loved one • Hurt/Comfort - comfort after a nightmare • Hurt/Comfort - Concussion or Head Injury • Hurt/Comfort - Hallucinations/Delirium • Hurt/Comfort - Character A blames themselves for what happened to Character B • I thought you were dead • Leopard Seal Selkies • Torture - Tortured while loved ones are forced to watch • Truth Serum • Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Rescue a Mutual Loved One Together

I am an absolute sucker for Ward's slow crawl towards being a decent human being and rebuilding his relationship with Danny; sunshine Danny and gloomy, cynical Ward are a perfect odd-couple pair. And I always wished we'd seen Ward and Colleen bond more. They have so much in common, including their prickly exteriors, weird/abusive childhoods, both of them having been victims of the Hand, and of course their shared love for Danny.

I am, let's face it, always delighted with anything terrible happening to Ward, but I also love his protector/big-brother tendencies and enjoy seeing him as the caretaker, protector, or rescuer too, for either Danny or Colleen. Canon-typical Danny/Colleen is welcome.

Most of these are pretty straightforward iddy h/c tags - does what it says on the tag! For the ones that might require more explanation, see below.

Leopard Seal Selkies
Alternate Universe - Hearts can be nonfatally ripped out and given to others to keep safe/hide/injure/etc
In both cases I was thinking these might be additional means for Harold to use to control and/or torment Ward (possibly with additional torment of Danny and/or Joy), or for Bakuto to use against Colleen.

Other tags I ran out of room to include; please feel free to use for inspiration:
A is dead; B will not stand for this
Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
Bodyswap to protect swapee
Bonding - characters grow closer despite themselves
Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
Captivity: Chained up with arms above head
Character A takes care of feverish B
Character gets beaten up and left for dead
Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded
Dimension travel - meeting alternate versions of self/friends/antagonists
Entering someone's dreams/nightmares
Gratuitous descriptions of hugging
Hurt/Comfort
Hurt/Comfort - Aftermath of Torture
Hurt/Comfort - Character finds themselves blind/mute/deaf after an incident
Hurt/Comfort - comfort focusing on little hurt because the big hurt is massive and unapproachable
Hurt/comfort - curse follows fairy tale rules but is taken deadly seriously
Hurt/Comfort - Field dressing combat injuries while being hunted by adversaries
Magical Tattoos
Time travel - Character time travels to when friend/lover was their enemy; can't hide their fondness
Trapped together - snowed in
unexpected telepathy leads to revelations
Undercover - Reformed former bad guy has to go undercover as a bad guy





Torchwood
Owen Harper & Ianto Jones
Owen Harper/Ianto Jones
Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones
Gwen Cooper & Jack Harkness & Owen Harper & Ianto Jones & Toshiko Sato
Gwen Cooper/Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones/Toshiko Sato
Accidental Soulbond - distance and lack of touch and regular sex causes characters pain and illness • Aftermath of Non-Consensual Body Modification • Aftermath of Resurrection • Aftermath of sex pollen - okay with the sex but not the physical/emotional intimacy • Alternate Universe - Hearts can be nonfatally ripped out and given to others to keep safe/hide/injure/etc • Captivity - Fellow captives sharing bed/body heat for mutual comfort after hurt • Character's superpowers are killing them • Entering someone's dreams/nightmares • Found Family - characters come to unspoken acknowledgement that that's what they are • Hurt/Comfort - comfort focusing on little hurt because the big hurt is massive and unapproachable • Hurt/Comfort - Concussion or Head Injury • Hurt/Comfort - Hallucinations/Delirium • Resurrection - One character rescues the other from the underworld/afterlife • Taking a nearly lethal blow meant for a friend • Team Bonding • Time travel - Character time travels to when friend/lover was their enemy; can't hide their fondness • Torture - Tortured while loved ones are forced to watch • Touch-Starved Character gets their hair stroked & gets other kind gentle touches & cuddles • Two Characters Who Pretend They Don't Like Each Other (but actually do) Grudgingly Work Together • two people really want Found Family but are too emotionally stunted to admit it • Werewolves - Pack Dynamics

I'm fine with any combination of canon pairings, poly, or gen for these characters. If you write Owen/Ianto, feel free to keep Jack/Ianto in the background. Owen/Tosh is another pairing I like. If you write a team fic, no need to focus on all team members equally as long as no one is bashed.

I'm totally fine with undead Owen (in fact, I really like him that way - so much angst!) but also completely on board with fixits. I love Owen and Ianto's warmer interactions in late season two and would love more of that. I just want everyone being happy and teamy and together forever. People reassuring Owen that he's still a valued member of the team after his undeath makes me happy, and I also love general undeath coping mechanisms, with the team finding ways for him to still enjoy some of the things he could enjoy before, through alien devices or improvised workarounds or just the team staying up with him watching movies so he doesn't have to be alone. I also love Owen doing doctor things and being in the comforter role.

I love weird Torchwood cases, so anything you want to do along those lines would be great!

Canon-specific DNW: Owen's undeath is fine, but I'd prefer to avoid any of the Exit Wounds/CoE deaths unless it's to fix them. Please no Gwen-bashing - it's okay to leave her out if you don't want to write her, just don't make a big deal about it.

Other tags I ran out of room to include; please feel free to use for inspiration:
A and B are dead; C will not stand for this
Begrudgingly Respectful Coworkers to Friends (or More than Friends!)
Captivity - Captured Together
Captivity: Chained up with arms above head
Case Fic
characters take care of baby found on doorstep
Characters Team Up To Investigate Something Paranormal/Supernatural
Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment
Conversations in Bars/Pubs
Fix-it - Last-minute rescue for character who died in canon before they die
Hurt/Comfort
Hurt/Comfort - comfort after a nightmare
Idiot/Stupid is a form of endearment
Resurrection - leads to accidental soulbond
Sex Pollen But All Would Enthusiastically Consent and it may be planned
unexpected telepathy leads to revelations




The Expanse
Klaes Ashford & Camina Drummer
A is B's handler - B doesn't fully trust A but needs to rely on them to survive anyway • Alternate Universe - Space Setting with Magic • Canonically dead character comes back as annoying ghost • Captivity - Captured Together • Captivity: Chained up with arms above head • Captivity - Fellow captives sharing bed/body heat for mutual comfort after hurt • Casefic: Undercover as a couple • Character's superpowers are killing them • Characters are forced to fight side by side in a gladiatorial arena • Characters both trying to sacrifice themselves for the other • Entering someone's dreams/nightmares • Fix-it - Last-minute rescue for character who died in canon before they die • Hurt/Comfort - aftermath of torture • Hurt/Comfort - Concussion or Head Injury • Resurrection - One character rescues the other from the underworld/afterlife • Shapeshifters in space • Time travel - Character time travels to when friend/lover was their enemy; can't hide their fondness • Trapped in a spaceship escape pod together • Werewolves - Pack Dynamics • Whump - A sacrifices themself to protect B; B is forced to watch A being tortured

I absolutely loved their slow climb from enmity to friendship, from Ashford trying to undermine her leadership to backing her up and defending her. I love that they clearly really love each other (that handclasp on the Tynan!), but in a very different way than, say, the found-family vibe on the Roci. They're just really sympatico once they get past the initial antagonism.

Most of these are various plotty and/or iddy ideas that could go in the post-season-3 to mid-season-4 period in canon, while they're trying to deal with Ring pirates, set up Medina Station, and generally adjust to working together. Feel free to handwave inconvenient canon details; they could go undercover to try to investigate Marco earlier, for example, and what do you MEAN there isn't a floating gladiatorial arena in orbit around Jupiter, or dream-sharing machinery in the Expanse universe? You can also make that time period longer than it was in canon.

Basically, I would love anything with these two gradually getting closer and learning to trust each other.

Spoilers for the most recent episodes are fine; you can assume that I have seen all the episodes but have not read the books. Ashford's death is an exception to my character death DNW; many of these requests would fix or ignore it, but it's fine if you don't.

Tags that might require some additional explanation:

A is B's handler - B doesn't fully trust A but needs to rely on them to survive anyway
Casefic: Undercover as a couple
In this case I was thinking one or both of them going undercover in Marco's group or in one of the other factions, perhaps trying to take down Marco or some organized Belter gang. It could also be some kind of sting to catch terrorists/pirates on Medina Station or Tycho or elsewhere in the Belt.

Alternate Universe - Space Setting with Magic
Character's superpowers are killing them
Shapeshifters in space
Werewolves - Pack Dynamics
I really love genre mash-ups, so feel free to take the Expanse Belt setting and add magic, mages, werewolves, anything along those lines! Urban fantasy IN SPACE would be fabulous. Their canonical power struggle actually works surprisingly well if you throw in werewolves. Or add non-canonical superpowers, maybe from science experiments or the protomolecule, or just generally.

Canonically dead character comes back as annoying ghost
Come on, imagine her FACE if Ashford ends up haunting her new ship, or maybe she captains the Tynan in the post-S5 period and finds out that Ashford comes with the ship. Honestly, she could really use the emotional support right now. I would absolutely love to see Camina, her new crew, and Ashford's ghost team up to take Marco down. Or just some little interludes with them. This could lead to some kind of fixit/resurrection scenario or not.

Fix-it - Last-minute rescue for character who died in canon before they die
Resurrection - One character rescues the other from the underworld/afterlife
Time travel - Character time travels to when friend/lover was their enemy; can't hide their fondness
I am ALWAYS here for a good death fixit, whether it's Camina swooping in at the last minute to save him from Marco, or figuring out a way to punch Death in the face until it gives him back (come on, if anyone can do it, she can), or time-traveling somehow.

Other tags I ran out of room to include; please feel free to use for inspiration:
Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance
Conversations in Bars/Pubs
Mirror Universe
Time Loop: looping character forced to watch loved one die repeatedly until loop is broken
Case Fic
Hurt/Comfort
Resurrection - leads to accidental soulbond